The Democratic Republic of Congo may not allow fags to marry in their country (for now), and they may have anti-abortion laws, but that doesn’t hide the fact that the DRC is just as filthy as all the other countries. Sexual violence is rampant in the DRC.

In one region in particular, North Kivu, sexual violence has been called “a devastating weapon”, in a province that is already near desolation because of war. Aid groups in North Kivu estimate that one in three women in the province have been raped, and over 30% of those raped are infected with AIDS.

AIDS IN THE DRC:

Deuteronomy 28:45  Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

According to the United States Aid Health Organization (www.usaid.gov), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was one of the first African countries to recognize HIV/AIDS (starting in 1983). In the mid 1990s, the life expectancy for those with HIV/AIDS in the DRC had dropped to 9 percent. By the end of 2005, UNAIDS estimated that 1 million people were living with HIV/AIDS in the DRC including that 3.2% of the adult population had been infected. The main mode of HIV transmission is heterosexual activity (87% of the cases). According to the 2006 DR Congo Antenatal Care (ANC) Surveillance Survey, “HIV prevalence is highest among men and women aged 15 to 24 and women attending antenatal clinics (3.6 percent among pregnant women aged 15 to 24 years old)”. In the second largest city in the DRC, Lumbumbashi, the prevalence of AIDS rose from 4.7 percent in 1997 to 5.4 percent in 2006. Since the 1980s, the U.S. Government has worked with the DR Congo’s Ministry of Health to develop HIV/AIDS programming. Though, even with all the money in the world on their side, this curse of God upon the DRC and upon this world known as AIDS will never cease, only increase more and more.

Sexual trafficking (report from http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2008/105386.htm):
“The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a source and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Much of this trafficking occurs within the country’s unstable eastern provinces and is perpetrated by armed groups outside government control. Indigenous and foreign armed militia groups, notably, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) and various local militia (Mai-Mai), continue to abduct and forcibly recruit Congolese men, women, and children, as well as smaller numbers of Rwandan and Ugandan children, to serve as laborers (including in mines), porters, domestics, combatants, and sex slaves. CNDP troops, dressed in civilian clothes and fraudulently promising civilian employment, conscripted an unknown number of Congolese men and boys from Rwanda-based refugee camps, as well as dozens of Rwandan children from towns in western Rwanda, for forced labor and soldiering in the DRC. The failed “mixed” brigade experiment, which attempted to combine full CNDP battalions into single brigades with other battalions answering to FARDC command and control, ended in September 2007. This process abruptly brought into the FARDC ranks an estimated 200 children, including girls, who were not demobilized during the reporting period. In December 2007, the terrorist rebel organization, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), intensified its operations in the DRC’s Dungu Territory, abducting civilians. An estimated 300 women and children remained with the LRA in DRC’s Garamba National Park. More than 1,000 Congolese women remained in Uganda after being forcibly transported there as sex slaves or domestics by departing Ugandan troops in 2004. An unknown number of unlicensed Congolese miners remain in debt bondage to supplies dealers for tools, food, and other provisions. Some reports suggest that Congolese children were prostituted in brothels or in camps by loosely organized networks. Congolese women and children were reportedly also trafficked by road to South Africa for sexual exploitation. Congolese girls were also believed to be trafficked to the Republic of the Congo for commercial sexual exploitation. A small number of Congolese children are also reportedly trafficked to Uganda via Rwanda for agricultural labor and sexual exploitation. Reports suggest some members of Batwa, or pygmy groups, were subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude.”